NEW ORCHARD. FIRST PLANTING! HOW WE PLANT TREES IN THE TROPICS.

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

RE: ELLEN WHITE METHOD. Based on the information available, it is my opinion/understanding that what is presently known as the Ellen White tree planting method would be more accurately referred to as her grandson’s planting method. The actual insight we have from Mrs. White herself is quite a bit simpler. Here is what Ellen White wrote on the subject. “While we were in Australia, we adopted the . . . plan . . . of digging deep trenches and filling them in with dressing that would create good soil. This we did in the cultivation of tomatoes, oranges, lemons, peaches, and grapes. {3SM 328.1} The man of whom we purchased our peach trees told me that he would be pleased to have me observe the way they were planted. I then asked him to let me show him how it had been represented in the night season that they should be planted. I ordered my hired man to dig a deep cavity in the ground, then put in rich dirt, then stones, then rich dirt. After this he put in layers of earth and dressing until the hole was filled. I told the nurseryman that I had planted in this way in the rocky soil in America. I invited him to visit me when these fruits should be ripe. He said to me, “You need no lesson from me to teach you how to plant the trees.” {3SM 328.2} Our crops were very successful. The peaches were the most beautiful in coloring, and the most delicious in flavor of any that I had tasted. We grew the large yellow Crawford and other varieties, grapes, apricots, nectarines, and plums.”-Letter 350,1907. {3SM 328.3}

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

Thanks. I didn't see this at first. But I see it now. Great. :)

[@marykaye6727]

Im so happy for you guys; can't wait to start my country living journey happy Sabbath God bless!

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Thank you, Mary. Nice to hear from you. Praying today that God will bless your efforts as you work to relocate to the country!

[@fatimamkundiza8749]

Yey! Excited before even watching!!

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Thanks for sharing our excitement!

[@ganrimgonmei2298]

So inspired..looking forward for country living at the earliest. God bless us all!

[@peaceofmind2831]

Love Ellen white planting method. 🧡 this video.

[@longfieldinthecountry7322]

Aloha friends! and God bless. I'm excited to watch you planting trees. I have started my country living journey and have already started putting some trees in the property. Continue sharing friends. Blessed day! Joyce in Botswana

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hello Joyce. So nice to hear that you've begun your own country living journey. How wonderful! Perhaps some time you can share with us what you are planting. I would very much encourage you to plant quite a bit of Moringa. I believe it would grow very well for you there. Best wishes!

[@longfieldinthecountry7322]

@@AlohaCountryLiving thanks for the response. I will definitely plant Moringa. I heard a lot about it. 🙏

[@christafarion9]

Good for you for making it even wider than Ellen White originally did! If you're going to go that big, you might as well go the extra mile.

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Thanks Christopher. Our goal size is 4x4x 3or 4 deep. This past week we hired an excavator and he made 26 new holes for us even larger than requested. Now we have 4x6x 3-4 deep.

[@maeclements1506]

Just love watching your video thank you. The Lord bless you and your family.

[@nommiortiz7597]

Thank you for sharing. My family and I have begun planting out our fruit trees on our farm and I'm always encouraged while learning from your videos. I remember my family and I meeting you in Hawaii when we had visited from Belize not too long ago. God bless your work.

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Thank you, Nommi. Very nice to hear from you. We remember. We are very happy to hear of your country living and fruit tree planting. May God abundantly bless your endeavors. p.s. The dolomite lime I show in this video will not apply to all locations. You might ask locally and find out if your soils generally benefit from it or not. Best wishes and thanks for watching!

[@Cjandlindseyland]

I'm so happy to see you guys get going I know its been a long time coming for you guys.god bless

[@konkanatilnisarg]

Very nice video ❤

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Thanks

[@punaforager]

Nice work! I agree that excavating the hole makes a huge difference, I’ve planted a major amount of my holes that way. My soil already had the rock, I just take out any that are larger than a softball. I’ve never added cinder. I do large mounds on top of the holes using my native soil, like baseball pitchers mounds, so that the trees are 1.5-2.5 feet off the ground. Than the heavy mulch over the entire mound. I’m on year four of Ma’afala breadfruit and still no fruit, despite the green leaves, and steady growth over the years. I’m at 1100 elevation. Good luck in your farming endeavors.

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hello friend. Thanks for the comment and for sharing your experience. We previously had a small farm in Kapoho and so we once prepared holes in an lava rock environment. In that case, it was quite a bit more labor. I was surprised you haven't used cinder, however I suppose you must have some soil at 1,100 feet. Do you do the pitcher's mounds for the purpose of obtaining more room for the tree roots (due to limited ability to dig deep) or do you do it to prevent root rot (from excess rain)? I'm currently doing the mounds on my avocado trees in an effort to prevent root rot (150 inches of rain here). I'm sorry to hear your breadfruit has yet to fruit. I wonder what could be done to stimulate it? We had two in Kapoho that fruited in about 2 years time. These trees we are planting now are quite a bit larger than those were (and these are also airlayers). which leads me to expect fruit in two years. I suppose time will tell if I am correct. Again, nice to receive your note. Best wishes to you too!

[@punaforager]

@@AlohaCountryLiving I build the large mounds with a skid steer, and I do it for the added depth as you said (3’ deep hole + 2’ mound/5-6’ diameter) but ALSO for the additional drainage too. I have some highly sensitive tree crops that don’t like pooling water... like durian and avocado. I did two root cuttings of breadfruit that I planted here in 2016, and both trees were loaded this past season, late 2020. I know Ma’afala is a compact breadfruit tree, but I have nine or ten breadfruit trees, 8 types, that I keep topped at 15 feet. The Australian farmers figured out that at that height, the tree is productive and very hard to blow over. I bought a cow pasture wide open to the sun and wind, without much cover, so I don’t take chances. Especially right now, gotta have every tree excelling! Growing fruit is practically starvation before the harvests, and I’m growing mostly grafted selections.

[@raviranatunge2422]

Thank you very much

[@clarkli6026]

I've been dreaming to own a farmland in Hawaii in order to grow breadfruit trees in the years ahead

[@jackiemartin2874]

Can you do a vlog on breadfruit recipes? Happy new year and Happy Sabbath!

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hi Jackie. Thanks for the suggestion. We'll see if we can do that. We have one breadfruit recipe on this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaPUdnh7hsqEiNU

[@chinandega81]

Thanks for the video. What elevation is the tree planted at? What are the typicals daytime highs and lows at this site? What is the hottest and coldest it typically gets at this location?

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hello. This tree is planted at 325 feet above sea level. Hottest temp is 85 degrees F. Coldest is 58-60F. Generally the temperature stays in the 60s-70s at night and 70s during the day.

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

This helps a lot 😀

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Glad to hear you found it helpful.

[@29Man...........]

What are your growing pruning and etc tips and suggestions?? Is it wise to plant breadfruit tree nearby house in tropical countries??

[@paulsheridan4977]

Very helpful and inspiring video, Ryan. A ready supply of breadfruit, from the Hands our LORD God. I was wondering whether there was any chance you could have access to the pure black cinders from your previous property? A warm "Happy Sabbath!" to our brothers and sisters around the world.

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hello Paul. Happy Sabbath. Breadfruit is an incredible blessing as it is a staple food that can provide significant sustenance. As a tree it is very resilient and needs little attention or care. Concerning the cinders...while it is true that our previous property remains covered in lava, there are no cinders to access. The cinders rain down when the lava shoots up into the air. The reason we have none is that there were no cinder cones in our area spewing out lava vertically. Those were several miles up the mountain and then the lava flowed downhill to our place. The lava that is on our property is a different structure. Some of it resembles pavement (called pahoehoe lava). At present, we buy our cinder from a quarry where cinder cones deposited the cinders many decades ago. Best wishes, Ryan

[@paulsheridan4977]

@@AlohaCountryLiving Thank you Ryan - it really was a miracle how God gave your family adequate time to react to the volcano - a good number of weeks; and that you were not any closer to the volcanic centre. Cinders, in this respect, are gladly not now readily available on your previous property. Enjoy this very restful Sabbath yourselves.

[@jaredmedina1004]

Hello, just would like to know your method of preparing grow beds for tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, bellpeppers? Is it same method like the EGW tree planting method? Thanks for your reply in advance. God bless

[@gaylerabinovitsj6459]

Hi, what is the best manure to use? I'm about to plant fruit trees using EGW method but planning to use horse manure is it ok?

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hi Gayle. The best manure to use is based on what you have available. We use bagged (and composted) steer and chicken manure. You can use horse manure. It is mild. There are some advantages to composting it first, but some people don't and it's fine. Generally, we keep our manure applications toward the top of the planted hole (i.e. not down deep). Best wishes!

[@baliholy165]

I have a different system for fruit tree planting very similar to yours, called Bali Tree Ecosystem --Ekosistem Pohon. However, wood chips mean that you wouldn't be welcome by the ecovillagers. Those are habitats for termites. I guess you don't have wooden building or wooden furniture in a 30 mile area. You might want to rethink what you are doing to your neighbors.

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

Dear Aloha. In my mind I have a thought that Ellen White also had a special way or manner to plant trees. Do you know perhaps where it is written where I can find it?

[@jackiemartin2874]

Ellen G. White Instructed in Planting Fruit Trees While we were in Australia, we adopted the ... plan ... of digging deep trenches and filling them in with dressing that would create good soil. This we did in the cultivation of tomatoes, oranges, lemons, peaches, and grapes. 3SM 328.1 The man of whom we purchased our peach trees told me that he would be pleased to have me observe the way they were planted. I then asked him to let me show him how it had been represented in the night season that they should be planted. I ordered my hired man to dig a deep cavity in the ground, then put in rich dirt, then stones, then rich dirt. After this he put in layers of earth and dressing until the hole was filled. I told the nurseryman that I had planted in this way in the rocky soil in America. I invited him to visit me when these fruits should be ripe. He said to me, “You need no lesson from me to teach you how to plant the trees.” 3SM 328.2 Our crops were very successful. The peaches were the most beautiful in coloring, and the most delicious in flavor of any that I had tasted. We grew the large yellow Crawford and other varieties, grapes, apricots, nectarines, and plums.-Letter 350, 1907. 3SM 328.3

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hello Hermann. You are correct, however it is my opinion/understanding that what is typically referred to as the Ellen White tree planting method would be more accurately referred to as her grandson’s planting method. The actual insight we have from Mrs. White herself is quite a bit simpler. Those quotes have been shared here by *Jackie* .

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

@@jackiemartin2874 Thank you for sharing that :)

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

@@AlohaCountryLiving Thank you.

[@kashyabguruvar5065]

Ellen white method minus the anchor rock and compost

[@Queen-zg1yp]

Yes, thats the method by EGW!!

[@kongiebeanie6488]

sukun... sedap buat goreng

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

Hello. Please can you tell us what you use to protect the fruit from fruit flies. My dad has a fruit tree but the fruit flies might have put their worm eggs in all the fruit. What does one do?

[@AlohaCountryLiving]

Hello Hermann. As far as I'm aware, there are two things one can do. #1. Pick the fruit a little early (while still a little green) and bring it in the house to ripen. The fruit fly typically waits for fruit to get close to ripe before inserting the larva. Also, you can hand a fruit fly bait solution in your orchard/garden and many of them will be captured....lowering the population in the area of your fruits/vegetables.

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

@@AlohaCountryLiving Thank you.

[@VK-qo1gm]

@Hermann Puntigam, I live in Australia, in my area we have fruit fly. We have a large orchard, for the past 11 yrs we use a method which has successfully saved all of our fruit, everytime. In a 3 ltr plastic milk container, we pour 2 cups of coca cola, 2 tbs of dry yeast, 2 tbs of sugar, half a cup of water, shake We then drill a number of smaller holes in the container, around the middle section & above well above the liquid, put the lid on, as our containers have a handle, we tie the container to the tree. The fruit flies are attracted to the mixture, the enter the small holes (that were drilled, or punctured) & drown. This sounds a lot more complicated than what it actually is. We have not lost any fruit since using this method. We have apricots, plums, cherries, figs, apples, pears, peaches, & many more varieties, it works on all fruit. This is not a time consuming or expensive method, but has saved all of our fruit & each year, We use no sprays or chemicals on our fruit, only natural fertilisers when needed, & get to eat beautiful, fresh fruit without the dreaded fruit fly destroying them. I hope this might help.

[@hermannpuntigam8582]

@@VK-qo1gm Wow, that is great. I wouldn't normally buy Coca Cola because caffeine is a psychoactive drug and drugs are not good except in emergency situations, but to use it to catch them flies and let them drink it and drown to protect the fruit trees, now that sounds like a good use to use that coca cola poison for them flies. :) Thank you. I appreciate the formula and directions you have shared. God bless.

[@mathusvaiaoga9787]

What’s the significance of the rocks 🪨??

[@VK-qo1gm]

Drainage & minerals

[@patriciacole8773]

... if the Lord should tarry.

[@29Man...........]

What are your growing pruning and etc tips and suggestions?? Is it wise to plant breadfruit tree nearby house in tropical countries??